This week’s art started out as a detailed line drawing, like I’ve been doing a bit lately, but I wasn’t really happy with it and set it aside. I’d been using straight-edges for cross-hatching and my hand control was slipping a bit, especially when I switched to a brush for the thicker lines, so I figured I’d go back to it later.

This is detail from the view from one of our hotel rooms from our July trip to Chicago, by the way. I think it’s the Wrigley Building, with other tall buildings in the background, but I’m not certain. I don’t do boats, so we haven’t taken the architectural tour.

Anyway, when I went back to this piece, I decided to bust out a couple of grayscale markers I picked up (coincidentally enough) at Blick Art in Chicago almost two years ago. I was very pleased to discover how smoothly and flat they went on the paper for pens I was using. I even applied them over some of the cross-hatching, which usually looks like hell, but worked out okay here. So now you get to see it.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a recent edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear more classic stand up comedy from Lenny Bruce on last week’s NEW episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon We bring you ten hours of Live and Local because that show may just be going on hiatus for a while, at least until I can beef up the roster a bit.